GPL’s new 46.5 MW power plant in final testing stages

Prime Minister Mark Phillips testing one of the generators (Photo taken from the Mark Phillips’ Facebook page)

The Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) 46.5-megawatt (MW) plant at Garden of Eden should begin exporting electricity to the national grid by the end of September with the final testing phases having already commenced.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips and Bharat Dindyal, Chief Exe-cutive Officer (CEO) of GPL, along with  directors, yesterday participated in the soft commissioning of the five generators that will be the core of the plant’s operations at Garden of Eden on the East Bank of Demerara.

Commissioning should last for about another month.